Analysis of The Stranger
"Now listen well," The Stranger said
"To a tale about two brothers.
One has a knife, the other does not
and yet they fight each other.
But you see back then there was no death,
they both lived endless lives.
But time still passed and with it flowed blood,
and the young one lost his knife.
Revenge for eons in a single breath,
that’s what the old one did
and forever he tried, ‘til he too lost the knife
and forever they stabbed and lived."
"Now Stranger," I laugh "which one are you?"
But he smiles with glinting eyes.
"Neither," he says, “but I was there.
You see, I was the knife.”
Scheme | XXXX AXXB AXBX XXXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 10101110 110101011 0111110 111111111 111101 111101111 0011111 0111000101 110111 001011111101 00101101 110111111 1111101 10111111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 595 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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